The state of the moisture regime in the soils immediately beneath a highway pavement slab can influence the behavior and life of a roadway and so should be accounted for in design calculations. Devices installed and monitored at sites across Ohio will provide information necessary to the proper application of effective stress principles in pavement design. The numerical models being used in the design of pavements are incorporating the response of subsurface materials to changing stress states into the description of the behavior of subgrade soils. Design engineers need a method to estimate dynamic elastic soil properties without performing dynamic laboratory tests for all possible loading conditions. By establishing a relationship (based on extensive testing) between basic soil properties and the dynamic elastic behavior of specific soil types found in Ohio this study will improve the reliability of pavement design procedures.


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    Title :

    Long Term Monitoring of Moisture Under Pavements, Executive Summary report


    Contributors:
    W. E. Wolfe (author) / T. S. Butalia (author)

    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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